CF v KM (Financial Provision for Child: Costs of Legal Proceedings) [2010] EWHC 1754 (Fam)

Costs: A marriage of necessity?

Chrissie Cuming Walters explores the interrelationship between costs allowances and legal services orders ‘The difference between legal services orders and costs allowance orders is that the former is subject to the application of more stringent statutory principles while the latter remains open to wider judicial interpretation and discretion.’The terms ‘costs allowance order’ and ‘legal services …

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Capital Orders: Interim measures

Fiona Wood looks at the type and appropriateness of interim capital orders that may be made under a variety of provisions It is possible under a variety of provisions to obtain an “interim” order for sale of a property or an interim lump sum order. However, the circumstances in which these applications are likely to …

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International Focus: The devil is in the details

Chris McIntosh and Duncan Ranton summarise lesser-known aspects of the EU maintenance regulation A parent from another EU member state will be entitled to have a decision about child maintenance registered and enforced in the UK courtesy of the British taxpayer. There has been a lot of interest over the past year in the family …

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